It's Memorial Day weekend! Let's take a road trip. Ed Harrell, Jeremy Camp, and Christopher Yuan share their stories.
Author Todd Friel, a professed chief sinner in his household, reveals that the most courageous thing he ever does is apologize to his wife and children for sinning against them.
Todd Friel encourages parents to look beyond behavior modification when disciplining our kids; reminding us that we're all sinners, even parents, so we shouldn't be shocked when kids don't behave.
Todd Friel talks to parents of prodigals who feel they are to blame for their child's waywardness. Friel reminds parents that it's their job to be faithful. It's God's job to bring their children to faith.
Why believe in Christ? J. Warner Wallace, along with his wife, Susie, explain that forensic faith is having good evidence that something is true and believing it.
J. Warner and Susie Wallace recall how they investigated the Gospels and eventually believed that what the Scriptures said about God and their own condition and needs was true.
J. Warner Wallace, a cold-case homicide detective, and his wife, Susie, tell how he applied his investigative skills to his study of the Bible, sure he could prove it wrong.
Hank Parker shares what he's learned from the current season of his life, which includes being a husband to his wife, Martha, and father to his children and stepchildren.
Hank Parker informs moms and dads on the benefits of taking their children hunting and fishing.
Hank Parker looks back on his life and the difficulties that could have derailed him for good. Hear how God radically changed his father's life and influenced him to change his own life after a family tragedy.
Pastor Sam Allberry has struggled with same-sex attraction since he was an adolescent. Allberry encourages others who are struggling to "taste and see that the Lord is good."
Former NFL quarterback Jeff Kemp and his wife, Stacy, talk about football; and the late Pat Summerall shares how he came to salvation in Christ.
Professor Owen Strachan reflects on the life of Chuck Colson. Owen talks about Chuck Colson's love for prisoners, and his work with Prison Fellowship, which he founded.
Owen Strachan joins Dennis Rainey in remembering the life of Prison Fellowship founder Chuck Colson, who died in April of 2012.
Bob Lepine explains the importance of remembering that Jesus not only gave His life for us, but that He suffered under Pontius Pilate, He was crucified, dead, and buried.
Christopher was in jail, busted for selling drugs. Could this be the answer to his mother's prayers? Christopher and his mother, Angela, talk about the way God slowly and patiently drew Christopher to Jesus Christ.
While Christopher Yuan turned to his gay friends and, eventually, drugs for happiness, his mother, Angela, turned to God. She and her husband prayed that God would do whatever it took to bring Christopher to Himself.
Christopher Yuan reflects back to when he "came out" to his parents to embrace the gay lifestyle. His mother, Angela, tells how she, in despair, turned to a God she'd only heard about, seeking hope.
Ginny Owens' job prospects looked bleak. She realized that schools were unreceptive to hiring a blind music teacher. Ginny tells how God used that time to prepare her for a music career she could hardly imagine.
What do you want to do with your life? For Ginny Owens, the answer is simple-to sing and write songs. Ginny talks about the ups and downs and the closed doors that led her to a thriving music career.
Ginny Owens shares how God answered her mother's prayer for her purpose, and talks about her ordinary childhood in Mississippi, despite her blindness.
Coaching isn't just about winning the game. Coaching is teaching boys to become men. Coach Dru Joyce remembers coaching NBA player LeBron James when LeBron first started playing at age 11.
As a head basketball coach in Akron, Ohio, Dru Joyce has been mentor to some of the nation's best young players, including LeBron James. Hear Dru tell how love for his son drew him into coaching.
If you want to experience marriage the way it was designed to be, you need a vital relationship with Jesus Christ.
Comedian Michael Jr. has a strict discipline to his comedy routine. It must be clean enough to say behind a pulpit, and yet it must be funny enough for a club. Michael shares how he came to Christ.
Former English professor and lesbian, Rosaria Butterfield tells how her worldview began to change when a pastor and his wife befriended her and invited her into their home.
Rosaria Butterfield was a feminist and lesbian bent on exposing the religious right. But then a surprising letter came from pastor Ken Smith, which turned into a friendship that changed her views about God.
My opinion was that most Christians had two brains.
Brothers Ryan and Josh Shook talk about their years of spiritual struggle, and their crisis of faith which eventually lead them to accept the truths of Scripture for themselves.
Ryan and Josh Shook tell how they came back from the brink of spiritual death after years of doubting their faith.
"Must I really have to see it to believe it?"
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The former special counsel to the president disproved the skeptics who doubted the validity of his conversion.
Barbara Rainey talks about the events that lead to meeting Dennis Rainey, who would later become her husband. Though Barbara's major was history, her passion was, she admits, following Christ.
Barbara Rainey allows us a peek into the early years of her life . Barbara recalls first steps of faith and when she began to feel the first inkling that God had a bigger purpose for her life.
Michael and Hayley DiMarco, CEOs and founders of Hungry Planet, talk about Michael's descent into a gambling addiction and the felony that finally got his attention and turned his life around.
Michael DiMarco tells how he became a gambling addict and how he rationalized his behavior and kept his secret hidden.
Carl Wilson reminisces about the end of his career as a Navy pilot, how he came to faith, and how he came to meet Sara Jo, the woman with whom he has shared life and ministry for 66 years.
Dennis Rainey recalls his friend Carl Wilson's advice to him 40 years ago when Carl advised him to read the Word and pray with Barbara every night, a suggestion Dennis took to heart.
Tyrone Flowers was a young athlete whose career was cut short when a teammate shot him, leaving him paralyzed. He shares the details of his story, and how God has been working in his life.
They moved to America to escape certain death in Iran. Pastor David Nasser recalls his family's early years in the United States.
Pastor David Nasser tells how his family fled Iran in 1979. Though his family tried for months to get into the US, when his mother invited him to pray to this "American Jesus," things began to change.
At a recent trip to prison, Dennis Rainey takes time to connect with prison inmates and hear the stories of a few whose lives were impacted by material on biblical manhood.
Chaplain Bruce Cunningham was winning at work - counseling and mentoring prisoners. In the process, he discovered that his own sons would benefit from the same training.
Prison Chaplain Bruce Cunningham reminds us that prison inmates are just like you and me. Bruce tells how God has given him a passion to help and serve these men, most of whom are fatherless.
Carolyn Weber tells how a difficult labor and delivery lead her to death’s door and how God sustained her through that trauma she calls the crucible moment in her marriage.
Dennis Rainey welcomes Kent Weber on the program to share how he witnessed to, and then wooed, his wife, guest Carolyn Weber, whom he met when they were students at Oxford.
Carolyn Weber reflects on her early months as a student at Oxford and her spiritual awakening which began there.
For awhile her life lacked direction. But now that she was back home in Arkansas, life was looking up.
